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Analyzing Your Existing Skills In Service of a Paralegal Career

published January 10, 2013

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Transferring Your Existing Skills To A Paralegal Career

Unless there is a particular area of the law that is calling your name, your wisest course of action may be to choose a specialty that is complementary to the skills and knowledge you already have. Once you are a seasoned paralegal, you can make a switch into a different specialty. The following chart will help you get started in the right direction.


At this point, you may be saying, “Wait a minute. I’m not going to paralegal school just so I can do all these non-law-related assignments for my employer.”

However, you must remember that running a law office is just like running any other business. Books must be kept, budgets must be created, employees must be hired and fired, marketing of the firm’s resources must be done to keep new business coming in, client relations work is performed constantly to keep the “customer” happy, and someone must be responsible for the care and feeding of the computer network. Most small and mid-sized firms don’t have separate departments to do all these jobs. They are divvied up between existing employees, including attorneys, paralegals, and secretaries. As part of the law office team, you may be asked to do your share of administrative work. While some paralegals find this type of assignment boring, others welcome it as a nice break from the endless round of billable hours.

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Harrison is the founder of BCG Attorney Search and several companies in the legal employment space that collectively gets thousands of attorneys jobs each year. Harrison’s writings about attorney careers and placement attract millions of reads each year. Harrison is widely considered the most successful recruiter in the United States and personally places multiple attorneys most weeks. His articles on legal search and placement are read by attorneys, law students and others millions of times per year.

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published January 10, 2013

By CEO and Founder - BCG Attorney Search left
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